Washing-machine



(No Model.)

S. HAKE. WASHING MACHINE.

Patented Nov. 26

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMON HAKE OF FORT ATKINSON, \VISOONSIN.

WAS HlNG-MACHINE.

S PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,865, dated November 26, 1889.

Application filed October 2,1888. Serial No. 286,967. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SIMON HAKE, of Fort Atkinson, in the county of Jefferson and State of \Visconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in ashing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters or figures of referrence marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a certain washing-machine for which Letters Patent of the United States No. 366,216 were granted to me on the 12th day of July, 1887, and the same are explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssection drawn on line X X of Fig. 2. Fig. t represents a side view of one of the oscillating rubbing-boards removed from the machine.

Like parts are represented by the same reference-lette rs throughout the several views.

A represents a receptacle in which the clothes are washed. The receptacle Ais provided with a series of rubbing'boards B l5 B, which are rigidly affixed to the rotating shaft 0. To the shaft 0 is affixed a handle D, by which an oscillating or rocking movement is communicated to the rubbing-boards B B. The boards B B are provided with a series of radial arms E E and several series of perforations or openings F F. The arms E E .serve to press against and rub the clothes as said bearing-surfaces are oscillated, while the water is permitted to circulate through said series of perforations F.

G G are rubbing boards, which are adapted to move horizontally toward and from the respective ends of the receptacle as the clothes are washed, whereby the clothes are compressed between the oscillating rubbing boards B B and the horizontally-moving rubbing-boards G G. The rubbingboards G G are each provided at their respective ends with posts H H, which posts are connected together by the longitudinally-arranged bars H H, both upon the front and rear of the machine. The bars II ll are provided with grooves b b for the reception of the supporting ways or beads (Z (Z, which ways serve to support and guide the horizontally-movi11g rubbing-boards G as they are drawn forward and backward in the receptacle.

In addition to the supporting-ways d a rod K is also provided for supporting and guiding the rubboards G G are moved backward and forward. A horizontally-reciprocating move ment is communicated to the rubbing-boards G Gthrough the cords I I and trcadles J J. The trcadles J J are operated by the weight of a person standing upon them. WVhen desirous to press the clothes upon the right of the l1orizontally-moving bearings G, the person operating the machine stands upon the trcadles J upon the right, whereby said treadle is depressed and the opposite one is released and the rubbing-boards Gare drawn toward the right against the oscillating rubbing-boards B, motion being communicated from the treadle J to said boards G through the cord I upon the right, which operates over the pulley a. IVhen desirous to compress or wash the clothes upon the left of the boards G, the operator stands upon the other treadle, while the treadle upon the right is released. Thus it is obvious that simultaneously with the oscillating movements of the rubbing boards 13 the boards G maybe thrown toward the right and left, as desired, by changing the pressure from one treadle to the other, whereby the clothes are simultaneously pressed and rubbed and the relative position of the clothes to the rubbing-boards is readily changed by stepping from one treadle to the other.

In the machine shown in my patent referred to a horizontally-reciprocating movement is communicated to the handle and oscillating rubbing-boards, while the other rubbingboards are made stationary. It is obvious that in said patented device the position of the handle was constantly being changed from one end of the machine to the other,

while by mypresentimprovement the handle is at all times retained in the same central position between the ends of the machine and the side pressure is produced by moving the non-oscillating rubbing-boards 'toward and from the oscillating board, and I am thereby enabled to support the oscillating shaftO at a fixed point in the stationary jourrial-bearings entirely within the clothes-receptacle. The treadles J J are provided with foot-plates R R, which are pivoted to the block uponthe standardsN N by the ,rod 0, which rod 0 extends beneath the treadles through the bearings P. By thus using the broad foot-plates R,I am enabled to locate the pivotal supports of the treadles farther apart from each other, whereby they are adapted to better resist the side strain upon them than would otherwise be the case were the pivotal supports brought in close.proximity to each other. The broad foot-plates are also more conveniently operated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- I g 1. In a washing-machine, the combination of the receptacle A, oscillating shaft 0, having stationary journal-bearings Within said receptacle, oscillating; rubbing-boards B B, rigidly affi'xed to said shaft 0, horizontally- J J, all substantially as and for the purpose specified. 2. Ina washing-machine, the combination of the receptacle A, pulleys a a, having supporting-bearings in the respective ends of sai .req ptac e, n edle J J arra ed right angles to the receptacle, horizontally-moving rubbing-boards G' G, rigidly connected with each other by posts H H and bars II H, posts H H, bars H H,ro,d K, operati'ngrcord I, communicating between the'trea'dles and said rubbing-boards G 3 1d Os illating rubbingws B; g d y a med t sai shaft 0, and operating-handle D,; said rubbing-boards B and G being respectively provided with perforations and radial, rubbing-strips, I all substantially as and for the purposespecifi'ed. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

I i I SIMON HAKE. Witnesses: I

J As. 13'. ER'v'viN,

G. H. KEENEY. 

